| 单词 | cassowary |
| 释义 | cassowary noun[C] uk/ˈkæs.ə.weə.ri/us/ˈkæs.ə.wer.i/a verylargebirdthat cannotfly. It issimilarto anemuand isfoundmainlyin NewGuinea. 鹤鸵（主要生长在新几内亚） Patrick_Gijsbers/ iStock / Getty Images Plus/GettyImages Other wild birds
Examplesofcassowarycassowary The few avian frugivores that forage on the ground leave obvious marks (catbird, tooth-billed bowerbird) or ingest fruit whole (cassowary). From theCambridge English Corpus Fruits of this species are too large to be swallowed by birds other than cassowaries. From theCambridge English Corpus Why is thecassowarynot a bird? From theCambridge English Corpus However, this study has shown that musky rat-kangaroos consume and carry fruits of all sizes, particularly the larger ones, which are not well dispersed by other frugivores except cassowaries. From theCambridge English Corpus Additionally, unripe fruits should be generally unattractive to canopy foraging frugivores such as flying foxes which likely represent low-quality dispersal opportunities for t he tree relative to cassowaries. From theCambridge English Corpus He bought cassowaries over the next 10 years, and two arrived every six months. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 The ratites are large flightless birds, and include ostriches, rheas, cassowaries, kiwis and emus. From Wikipedia  This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Among them there are jaguars, cassowaries, monkeys, sloths, chimpanzees and orangutans. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Birds include two species ofcassowary, 31 dove and pigeon species, 31 species of cockatoo, 13 species of kingfisher and 29 species of sunbird. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.All cassowaries have feathers that consist of a shaft and loose barbules. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He instead modelled the skeletal mounts after thecassowaryand wallaby, and put the spike that had been on the nose firmly on the thumb. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thecassowaryhas claws up to 125 mm long. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Adult southern cassowaries are 1.5to(-)1.8 m tall, although some females may reach 2 m, and weigh 58.5 kg. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.They then studied 140 cases ofcassowarymortality and found that motor vehicle strikes accounted for 55% of them, and dog attacks produced another 18%. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Cassowaries commonly eatcassowaryplums, hence the name. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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